I to go Twitter this morning and see Space Force is trending.

Why?

Trump’s Space Force launched at Pentagon as a separate armed service

So Twitter is just an orgy of mockery.

As a Hugo-winning scifi writer, I feel qualified to say: The United States needs quality health care for its people far more than it needs a "Space Force." Let's take all the money and effort we'd pour into that silly thing and instead make an actual difference in people's lives.

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 9, 2018

Remember, John Scalzi is the guy who reminds white men that they are playing life on the easiest difficulty setting.  Also, being a sci-fi writer is no qualification to opine on the future of warfare in space.

If so, I’d make Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn generals in the Space Force for their experience in fighting aliens.

Space Force is a silly but dangerous idea. Medicaid expansion is not silly or dangerous. We should do the second one. Vote!

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) August 9, 2018

Democrat Socialist being a Democrat Socialist.

So…the douchbag in Chief has the head of Marvel to maralogo for a general cock-sucking session, next thing ya know we’re talkin about a new branch of military called THE SPACE FORCE. And you’ll never guess who’s gonna run it!!!

Can’t make this shit up folks!

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) August 9, 2018

He’s just mad the Kiju ate him in Pacific Rim.

So the US is now launching a 6th branch of military, Space Force. To the person that accidentally left “Independence Day” playing in the White House movie room, this is on you.

— Aaron Levie (@levie) August 9, 2018

Now that the Left has had its fun, let us consider the reality.

The United States Air Force was created with the National Security Act of 1947.  Justification of the creation of the USAF is as follows:

In general the United States Air Force shall include aviation forces both combat and service not otherwise assigned. It shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained offensive and defensive air operations. The Air Force shall be responsible for the preparation of the air forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war except as otherwise assigned and, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of the peacetime components of the Air Force to meet the needs
of war.

During WWII, combat aviation was either Navy Aviation or Army Air Corps.  We learned how vital air combat superiority was to winning war and so the creation of the Air Force was to have a branch of the military with air combat supremacy as it’s singular goal.

Space defense is going to be critical in the future.

The Left made fun of Reagan’s Star Wars but the fact is, every day, ballistic missile technology becomes easier for less developed nations to achieve.  Cell phone other consumer technology that is satellite driven can be found all over the world.

GPS guided weaponry used to be the kind of ordinance only the US could bring to the battlefield.  Now the Palestinians are using GPS guided drones to take out targets in Israel using off the shelf consumer grade hardware.  A quad copter and a cellphone can make a weapon as accurate as what we were dropping out of F-117’s during Desert Shield.

A defensive first strike may very well include blowing up an enemy nations satellites  and taking out their GPS and communications network.

Next generation spy satellites, orbiting monitoring systems, preventing enemy nations from weaponizing their own satellites is going to be part of the future of war.  It’s not “if” but “when” and you’d expect a sci-fi writer to understand that.

Having a military branch with the singular responsibility of extra-atmospheric intelligence gathering and defense is logical.  Especially as private companies develop more advanced space technology.

If Elon Musk can put his convertible in space, how long will it be before some Iran or Pakistan or China has the ability to put an orbiting nuke in space?

I’m not saying I agree with this 100%.  What I am saying is that it is not an irrational, crackpot idea.

But trust that Leftists who hate Trump and no nothing about military history, strategy, or tactics are going to demonstrate just how stupid they are making fun of the President for this.

DALLAS – Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox said Caraway admitted in court Thursday morning to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and tax evasion.
“Today is a day of both reckoning and reconciliation for the city of Dallas and its citizens. I am pleased to announce a major victory in the battle against public corruption,” she said
….
Between 2011 and 2017, Caraway allegedly accepted more than $450,000 in bribes and kickback payments from Robert Leonard, the president of the technology company Force Multiplier Solutions. In exchange, he promised to and voting in favor of a program to put the company’s stop-arm cameras on Dallas County Schools (DCS) school buses, according to court documents.

Dwaine Caraway pleads guilty to corruption charges

And yes, he is member of Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. I already lost count how many have been arrested or had to quit for their “sterling” conduct.

Hat Tip Rob Morse’ Slow Facts.

Meme floating in the book of Feces.

The whole embarrassing situation when a bunch of white Liberals harassed a Black woman for the unforgivable sin of being Conservative.

After a weekend of ratcheted up liberal fascism and censorship of conservatives, black conservative firebrand Candace Owens was chased out of a restaurant with Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk this morning.

WATCH: Black Conservative Candace Owens Screamed Out of Restaurant By White Leftists

At least they have not engaged in their forefathers’ tradition of lynching the negroes that dare to disrespect them….yet.

I am off the Thread Ban!

Thread Ban

This is what is referred to as conventional shadowban as well. It comprises a search ban while threads are completely ripped apart by hiding reply tweets of the affected user to others. Everything will look perfectly normal to the affected user but many others will not be able to see reply tweets of the affected user at all. Reasons for this ban include behavior like excessive tweeting or following. Again, this type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

I guess I did pissed them off asking that many people the same question, which none have answered yet.

I don’t think the latest Brady PSA will have much traction as usual. They are good at sticking people with legal bills for lawsuits they convinced people to take against gun stores and related.

If you are on Twitter, check if you see me and send me a smiling FU.

We finally got the text of the bill.  Not surprisingly, Sen. Nelson is tying unrelated crime events to the publication of files. I love how he flexes the truth to pad his bill.

(5) On June 7, 2013, an assailant used a gun he had constructed by himself to kill his father, brother, and 3 other people at Santa Monica College in California. The person had failed a background check when he tried to purchase a gun from a licensed gun dealer. The gun he used was made from an unfinished AR–15-style receiver, similar to a receiver that can now be made with a 3D printer. 

The Santa Monica shooter he mentioned seems to have built his AR out of an 80% receiver with a drill press and not a 3D printer or desktop CNC machine, yet Nelson strongly misdirects the readers.

In Zawahri’s bedroom, investigators found a drill press among other materials that indicate he likely assembled the weapon.
The drill press is used to help finish building the rifle by drilling holes in the lower receiver. A lower receiver that is only 80 percent complete can easily be purchased, and because it is not complete, a person isn’t required to go through a background check, nor does the part need to have a serial number.

New details emerge on Santa Monica fire, gunman’s weapon

The police also found Zip guns in Zawahri’s bedroom (illegal in CA) that we can safely assume were not 3D printed and that he found the blueprints to manufacture in the Internet.

Here is the brass tack:

 SEC. 3. Prohibition.
Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(aa) It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally publish, over the Internet or by means of the World Wide Web, digital instructions in the form of Computer Aided Design files or other code that can automatically program a 3-dimensional printer or similar device to produce a firearm or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.”.

IANAL, but I don’t see this having a chance in hell to survive SCOTUS scrutiny even with narrowing it to the specific “use of a 3D printer or similar device”.  As long as you can buy books like The Anarchist Cookbook in Kindle edition, you are going to have a tough time trying to justify why a bunch of code is different and should be restricted.